Anthem Equality's Sins Quotes

At least those who dare thinking about it. Equality didn’t have experience, all he knew, was from storys he heard or read. But after he runs into the forest he quickly realizes that many things were not true. He survives and starts building up his new life, with the woman he loves. That as an example would never be possible in the City. Back in the City people are seen as one union not as an individual person, so that’s how they have to live there. In the forest they can be free without rules. Contrasting those two places, it might even seem that the city is a prison. Well the city is the only place the people know to live so far. They accept it but it just doesn’t seem like they would be happy, more likely scared. As Equality realizes at the end of the book. He should free the people and create a place here out in the forest, where people can live freely. (P.104 :” I shall break all the chains of the earth, and my home will become the capital of a world where each man will be

In the beginning, Equality claims to be cursed by being taller and smarter than his brothers and admits that even thinking that he is smarter is a sin. All individuality is taken from the people in this society and they are given homes to work in every day like clockwork until they

is his remark. Surely there is a deeper explanation to his “madness” in this chapter! Equality laughs at himself for being one of the damned. I believe there is a deeper meaning to this for the first time in his life,

He realizes he had everything to fear from the twisted society that he lived in. Equality had trusted himself enough to completely let go of his old society, to leave everything behind and adopt a new culture. He must have trusted himself immensely to have done this. He also realizes humans are much too smart to govern that society and wonders if they were just too afraid to contradict their government or just did not trust themselves to try and overthrow it. Equality realizes he should be confident in himself. He is a very headstrong person and is not persuaded so easily. That is why he had left his society in the first place. Equality would like to live as an individual where he would not work together for the common good, as a group, but where he alone will work as an individual in his new society that he will soon create.

Equality has on his own discovered how to act upon his own actions. He has acted out his own intentions for the well being of himself and considering the change of the society for the better.

During his childhood, he was blessed with an individual spirit and the intelligence to understand the knowledge of the world. In spite of this, he reckoned his abilities as transgressions. He acknowledged that the way of life was that “Everything which comes from the many is good. Everything which comes from the one is evil” (Rand 85). Equality strives to accept the totalitarian society and consequently, he desperately struggles to disregard his abilities and subdue his desires. The grisly effects of society are portrayed immensely through the profound sense of guilt he suffers while committing the Sin of Preference. He continually recites that, “We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by, and for our brothers who are the State. Amen” (Rand 21). Gradually, his aspirations contradict with the dogma of society. He discovers that he finds more joy committing the Sin of Preference rather than restraining himself from happiness, which ultimately, allows him to elude his conscious premises. Equality’s belief that “[he] [has] torn [himself] from the truth which is [his] brother men… [he] knows [this], but [he] [does] not care” (Rand 76) marks his complete triumph over collectivism. Prior to his transformation, he belonged to a society in which the Sin of Preference revoked all rights for any desire, which ultimately disallowed citizens to think for freely. If permitted to do so, no

In The Novel Anthem The character equality’s sense of mortality at the end of the novel differed from his society’s institutions, practices, and officials.The choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life,alter gravely throughout the text .From the very beginning to the very end, the audience can easily depict a change in the character’s mental,as well as mortality.In the very beginning Equality was full of curiosity,he could spot his indifference to the others,he also knew he could not think of himself as an individual.Everything done,would have to be done for the good of his “brothers.”He automatically questioned authority,and had a hard time conforming to society.

When Equality 7-2521 begins the novel by saying, “It is a sin to write this.” he has a different moral assessment of writing than at the end of the novel. Throughout Anthem, Equality’s actions affect how he views his society and the people around him. By the end of the story, Equality begins to realize that the government and society that he lives in might not be so perfect, and it might not be a sin to write. Equality’s eventual moral assessments of his sins are correct and are supported by; his growth throughout the story, the themes of independence developed in the novel and Ayn Rand’s concepts concerning communism. These are the three ideas that will be developed and explained in this paper.

When looking at these lines, the speaker already has the strength within his soul, and this same strength allows him to get through the events that they are facing. The speaker and Equality were only able to face what they went through due to the strength within

Explanation- This quote gives a background of Equality thinking of being himself and breaking away from The Council. On the other hand, Equality knows that acting different will attract the government, costing him his death. In the real world, equality won’t give us the issue of rights and fairness, but in the future, the human race will certainly regret it. Ann Rand put this in her book to show that even though the world pursues equality, we would have to give up on individuality.

Equality's morality is that if I propose this idea it will be beneficial to the community and that the community will recognize me as a scholar worthy person and make me a scholar which is you have read the book you will know that this didn't work out well for him. The community's outlook about morality is that if you came up with this by yourself you are bad or trying to be more powerful or smarter than everyone else in the community. The reason his plan failed is it needed to come from multiple people so that no one person got all of the fame or power and that it why his plan failed. The counsel of scholores saw him as wanting power and glory rather than helping the community out. This is how equality's morality compares to the rest of the communities

Although Equality lived in a very controlling environment, he would not use any of these laws as a result of his personal beliefs towards these laws, but also because of his experiences breaking these laws. Equality starts talking about his thoughts toward some of the rules in chapter 2. “Twice have we been sent to the Palace of Mating, but it is an ugly and shameful matter” (Rand 41) This is supremely important to the story because this is the first time Equality shows some individuality when he talks about how he himself feels. Equality would not include these rules since he has negative innervation about them, but also because of his experiences breaking the rules. For instance, when Equality is arrested and taken to the Corrective Detention to be sent to their “jail” he is not afraid but almost excited. “It was easy to escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. The locks are old on the doors and there are no guards about. There is no reason to have guards for men have never defied the Councils so far as to escape from whatever place they were ordered to be. Our body is healthy and strength returns to it speedily. We lunged against the door and it gave way. We stole through the

Equality says that,”I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.”

There were many things of the unknown that Equality was oblivious to and he was determined to explain his mind. He knew that, "We have come to see how great is the unexplored, and many lifetimes will not bring us to the end of our quest" (Rand 36). No matter how many lifetimes he got, it would never be enough time to know every last thing that wandered the earth. It shows that all Equality ever wanted to do buckle down on the books and study everything he possibly could to give himself a bigger picture on life. He had to study alone, away from the Street Sweeper home, in a tunnel that he found, to gain this knowledge because he could be punished if any of the superior members of the society found out.

“I understood the blessed thing which I had called my curse. I understood why the best in me had been my sins and transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins” (98). This quote is about Equality’s epiphany about his curiosity he had had his entire life, proof of the twisted logic the collectivist society used on civilians to make them identical. Since Equality was feeling the best he had ever felt once being free from the collectivist reigns, he was bewildered with the reality of being ‘shunned’ or as his civilization would call him, ‘damned’. Equality laughs, “For the first time this day, we remembered that we are the Damned. [...] We are writing this on the paper we had hidden in our tunic together with the written pages we had brought for the World Council of Scholars, but never given to them” (80). Equality assesses that running away from the law didn’t come with any consequences that he isn’t willing to live with. He was no longer scared to be judged on his thoughts or creations. He comes to the conclusion that nothing is worth giving up